delete and substitute

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

#!/usr/bin/perl

while($_ = <DATA>){

chomp;
#print $_;

s/<.+><\/.+>//g;
s/<!\[CDATA\[<p><\/p><p>/<![CDATA[<p>/g;
print "$_\n";
}

__DATA__
<Text><p>
<Text></Text>
<Memo></Memo>
<Text></p>
<![CDATA[<p></p><p>
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How to remove the string if it has <Text></Text>,<Memo></Memo> but not  Which is empty and how to replace <![CDATA[ to <![CDATA[

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Re: delete and substitute by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 09, 2009 at 06:43 UTC
Take a serious look at HTML::TreeBuilder or some of the other HTML munging modules in CPAN. You really don't want to be doing that sort of work with hand rolled code! True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: delete and substitute by Anonymous Monk on Dec 09, 2009 at 06:42 UTC
Why aren't you using a module for parsing XML?	[reply]
Re: delete and substitute by doug (Pilgrim) on Dec 09, 2009 at 16:41 UTC
Are you the same person who yesterday wanted to edit XML without parsing it? Hopeless task, that. Parse it, look for the stuff you want to remove, and then write it back. Sleep well knowing that your program isn't a house of cards - doug	[reply]
Re: delete and substitute by vitoco (Hermit) on Dec 09, 2009 at 12:50 UTC
Your sample data doesn't seem to be valid XML, so XML modules will fail. Try the following line as a replace for both of yours: `s/<(\w+)>\s*<\/\1>//g;` [download] Beware that this won't remove two "adjacent" tags from different lines, because you are processing one line at a time.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: delete and substitute by Anonymous Monk on Dec 12, 2009 at 03:00 UTC
This person keeps switching from HTML to XML, all trying to edit with regex, every time question changes by little bit	[reply]


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